Word: harmful
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...lawyer by training, Segni is also an experienced politician (twice Premier: 1955-57; 1959-60) and a thoughtful statesman who describes his outlook on history as Tolstoyan. "Men in government," he has written, "really have only an enormous capacity for doing harm. Their chances for doing good are very few and hard to come by." As Italy's President for the next seven years, Segni has a rare opportunity for doing good...
...specialists were unable to agree on what, exactly, was a safe distance, for no adequate experiments have been carried out on human eyes. Nevertheless, those conducting the tests feel sure that Hawaiians will be safe from harm. --From The New York Times, April...
Disarmament is impossible in the foreseeable future. Everyone knows this except a few sentimentalists. Yet West, East and neutrals continue the solemn game of pretending that some sort of disarmament deal can be reached. The harm of the game, to the West, is that it fosters illusions. The advantage is that more and more it shows up the Russians as phony champions of peace...
Most of Richardson's attack was directed at William Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. In Richardson's view, Callahan "has done a lot more harm than good for the state." Going further, the former president of the Harvard Law Review charged that Callahan has taken a "totalitarian approach...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...